Rembrandt van Rjin (1606–1669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. Living and working in the Protestant Netherlands, he painted largely for private patrons and the open market, selecting his own subjects in the hope of finding buyers. Although he depicted biblical, historical, and mythological themes in emulation of the great artists of the past, his subjects often focus on fundamental human experiences and emotions that transcend their literary sources. Even when working within the confines of specific commissions, Rembrandt managed to imbue his paintings with deeper, personal meanings. These works reveal the artist’s profound humanity and at times reflect the circumstances of his life. This illuminating study explores some of the central themes of Rembrandt’s paintings, drawings, and etchings: grand – love, sin, repentance and forgiveness, adultery, fatherhood, and the conflict between the generations – as well as mundane and idiosyncratic. It demonstrates how Rembrandt’s subjects can offer new revelations about this complex artist.

Rembrandt's Themes: Life into Art

Arts & Photography

Verdi, Richard

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was the greatest French painter of the 17th century, and one of the greatest painters of all time. His profound understanding of the art of antiquity and of the Italian Renaissance led him to create works of such sophistication, clarity and discipline that they remained the model for all classicising artists up to Cezanne and even into our own century. Although Poussin's subject-matter was largely religious and mythological, Richard Verdi shows in his illuminating introductory essay that it derived from themes and preoccupations that were intensely personal in origin. At the same time, Poussin's study of the countryside around Rome laid the foundations for landscape paintings of heroic grandeur and lyrical beauty. This catalogue accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of Poussin's paintings in Britain, staged to mark the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth. Some ninety paintings have been assembled from public and private collections throughout the world for an exhibition of the highest scholarly importance, as well as one of great popular appeal. The works have been selected by Pierre Rosenberg, Director of the Louvre, who contributes a distinguished essay to this catalogue, and by Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery in London. This lavish and beautifully illustrated volume encompasses much recent research on Poussin, and as such will be of vital interest to art historians. It also explores and clarifies an art that is fundamental to the Western classical tradition, and presents it in all its splendour. As a study of the artist and the genesis of his major works, it is unlikely to be superseded for some time.

Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665

ROSENBERG, Pierre

Individual Artists

Zwemmer

Describes the development of Cezanne's techniques for creating landscapes, still-lifes, and figure studies, and discusses influences on his work

CÃ©zanne (World of Art)

Thames&Hudson

An updated edition of thisclassic survey illustrated incolor throughout, this book isthe definitive overview ofPaul Cézanne's life and work. For Picasso he was "like our father"; for Matisse, "a god of painting." PaulCézanne (1839-1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. Inthis authoritative and accessible study, Richard Verdi traces the evolutionof Cézanne's landscape, still-life, and figure compositions from theturbulently romantic creations of his youth to the visionary masterpiecesof his final years. The painter's biography--his fluctuating reputation andstrained relations with his parents, wife, and close friend Emile Zola--isvividly evoked using excerpts from his own letters and from contemporaryaccounts of the artist. Cézanne was torn between the desires to bothmake and find art--to master the themes of the past, through his copyingsessions in the Louvre, and to explore the eternal qualities of nature inthe countryside of his native Provence. In this way, the artist sought "tomake of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of themuseums." In this richly illustrated overview, now updated throughout andwith a new preface, Verdi explores the strength, vitality, and magnitude ofCézanne's achievement.

Cézanne (World of Art)

A comprehensive introduction to Velázquez's life and art which includes a discussion of all his major works. Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of western painting and Baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was 'treated' as a portrait, from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X, to a mortar and pestle. This comprehensive introduction to Velázquez's life and art includes a discussion of all his major works, and illustrates most of Velázquez's surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. The artist's greatest innovation - his unorthodox and revolutionary technique is explored in relation to the styles of certain of his most celebrated contemporaries both in Spain and beyond, including Titian and Rubens. The book concludes with a final chapter on the influence and importance of Velázquez's art on later painters from the time of his own death to the art of recent times including Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and the Impressionists.

Velázquez (World of Art)

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Anthony Van Dyck ECCE Momo the Mocking of Christ

Princeton University Art Museum

Cézanne and Poussin: The classical vision of landscape

National Galleries Of Scotland

A fascinating guide to a magnificent collection of paintings, sculptures and objets d'art Clear and concise text written from the expert perspective of the Institute's Directors Full color photography allows the works to be appreciated in detailThe Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, UK, is one of the finest small picture galleries in the world. It is home to a magnificent collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, objets d'art and coins, and may justly claim to be the most representative collection of Western artwork formed in Britain over the past 100 years. This stunning book, fully revised and updated, presents 120 of the finest works in the collection, with extended captions alongside glorious full-colour illustrations. Bellini, Rubens, Gainsborough and all the major Impressionist painters are represented. The story of each work is described in fascinating detail, placing it in a wider art-historical context.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Kalinsky, Nicola

Wenley, Robert

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

<div>Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of the French school. Yet Poussin's reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer visual beauty. In Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction, Richard Verdi redresses the balance, describing and analyzing Poussin's outstanding gifts as a pictorial storyteller, designer, and colorist--in short, the purely aesthetic (and often abstract) aspects of his art that have inspired so many later painters, from Turner to Cézanne to Picasso. The book features more than two hundred illustrations, the majority in color, and encompasses all aspects of Poussin's art from the mid-1620s to his death in 1665. This groundbreaking study will shed new light on this significant French painter.</div>

Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction

Reaktion Books

Collection of essays and in-depth case studies supplement this fully illustrated book that highlights works the National Art Collections Fund helped secure for public collections in the United Kingdom. Famous paintings include (among others) Botticelli's Virgin Adorning the Sleeping Christ Child, Velazquez's Rokeby Venus and Picasso's Weeping Woman. 312p. Index.

Saved 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund

Hayward Gallery

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